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•THE RUBE DETECTIVE" 



A COLIEDY OEAt'IA 



BY 



lilROU LEEEIHGWELL 



G OPYRIGHTE.O 1913 



BY 



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CHICAGO KAITUSCRIPT GOo , 
431 Ho Clark Sto ^ 
CHICAGO, ILLo 



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"The R-u"be Detective.," 

A TalDloid Cojmdy Drama ■ 

In Three Acts o 



Alexander Smart "S3iiart Aleck" an upstage 

Deputy Sheriff, 
Etenezar Buzzard — •- A miser crook, 

¥illiam Baker Bronx Billy, a gun man. 



Mother Kizzie MandelToum Landlady of the Home Hotel. 

"Bendy" A v^raif « 



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T SYHOPSIS_. 

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Act 1:- Back room of the Bar of the Ho^JJo*?^^ H. Ya 
Act 11 & 111:- Sitting Room of the Home Hotel .^^.^^^ 



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Act ?irst. 



Scene:" Back Room off the Bar of the Bar of the Home Hotel, 
This is the typical Toack room of a low Raines Law Hotel. N. Y. 





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(1) Door L U E.Bar Backing* (2) Willi ow up hack R of^^ '^ 
Exterior Backing, (3) Door R Interior hacking, (4) 
Tahles and chairs, as per diagrame i5) Piano and stool 
R.U, Signs and Lithos hung on walls o 



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At Rise:- Mother Kizzie "Mandelloum discovered going over account 
■book at talole L. She wears apron and should "be a fat comfortable 
looking party. William Baker, Bronx Billy a well dressed 
young fellow vfith assured manner and slight touch of swagger 
enters from "bar L U E) 

Billy 
G-ood morning, Kizzie,, 

Kiz z i e 
Good morning, Billy. 

Billy • 
Are you letting the bar run it self o 

Kiz z i e 
There ain't no custom much at this tinK of the day^ I'm 
just figgerin' how I'm go in' to pay rent and the brewery 
both today. Say, ain't you forgot some thin' Billy? 

Billy • 
^'orgot somethin'? forgot nothin* <. You nBan my room rent? A 
swell chance a guy has to forget that, when he's boardin' off 
you. Say Kizzie I'm cleaned, just cleaneda 

Kiz z i e 
I wasn't a mentioning no thin' so low and common as dirty 
money, what I was a just a hintin' was, ain't you got a kiss 
for your little girlo 

Billy 
(As a matter of course) Sure '^ Oh I ain't sore about owin' 
you money. Sure not, I was just thinking about uaking a ' ' ' 
touch, let me have five bucks and I'll go back to the game» 

Kiz z i e 
You'll have Lo wait till Casey the "bar keep" gets back, 
he's got the combination, I ain'to 

• Billy 
Where is Casey? 

Kiz z i e 
The Captain of the Precinct sent to question him about the 
guy you smashed night before 3.asto . • 

Billya ^^ 

(In aggrieved tone) What, and are they beefing about that? 
I only bounced a bottle of bees off his beario What's that? \ 
YiTith their Sullivan law a guy can't carry a "gat" no more, •; 
he's likely to do seven. years c The judges send you up for 
packing Steele, "Knucks" bla.ck-jacks and sich^ V^hat's a gent ' 
to carry. This little old town's gettin' to be a hell of -^a 
place to live in, I ifash Casey vrould get backo I thought you 
had Bendy tend bar v/hile he was away^ 

Kiz z i e 
She t s gone crazy on roller skates, I can't seem to keep her 
around the joint no more,, (IToise outside, voices) 

Bendy 
(Outside) Yes, you will - Yah s YahlYah, come inside, and 
we'll put you in the veal stew for lunch to-day. You big calf. 
(Enters sliding on one skate. Carries the other in hand.) 

Kiz z i e 
Y/hat's going on here? (Grabs at Bendy) 

Bendy 
(Dodges her) I am on one skate „ I just took off the other 
to swipe Otto SchmalZo He was fresh and — 

Kizzie 
Shut up J You're always scrapping vdth those boysi Y/hy don't 
you learn to b'e a lady like me? Now cut out this monkey 
dodle business^ Cut it out or I'll shut you in the cellar 
with the rats« 

Bendy 
No, you won't. I've been bait for them rats long enough. 



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Kiz z i e 
Well perhaps I' 11 change off and let Billy's Bull pup hare 'a 
"bite at you^ 

Billy ' ■ 

See here, Kizzie,. I don't wa.nt no one Txit me feedin' my dog„ 
It's porterhouse steaks for himo- 'iThere have you "been Bendy? 

Be nay 
Over to Tomkins square, skatin' on the asphalts 

Kizzie 
(Picks up hat) Y/ell, you skate around here now, sind mind the 
iDar. I'm going around to the station 'house and see what keeps 
Caseyj By, Toy, Billy, Pet, (KisscF; him on cheek..) > 

Bendy 
(Aside) ?/ell wouldn't that nake you sicko (Takes off skate) 

Kizzie 
I won't be long. 

Bendy . - 

(Sings) "I don't care if you never come "backo" (Kizzie 
exits L U E) 

Billy 
Get me a cigar Bendy? 

Bandy 
What kind, a Rubfeerino, or a I'uma de Cabbajo? 

Billy 
An imported cigar of course, a gentleman's smoke, for a 
gentleman o 

Bendy 
Where's the gentleman? (Looking around) 

Billy 
Right here, (Slaps himself on breast) (Enter Uncle Aleck,' 
he carries an old fashioned carpet bag and • umbrella « ) Me J 
I am Mr. William Baker, and you don't want to forget it, 
Seel 

Benvdy 
Keep your shirt on, Billy ^ 

Billy ^^ 

ITow get to Hell out of here and get mo that, cigsit , 

■ Bendy 
(To Aleck) Y/hat are you going to take Claud ei'^'^'Q?^ 

Aleck "^ ■^^ 

You've got me wrong young lady,, I ain't "Claude"' ^-K! ^%-fe 

Bendy' ' ^^^'^ 

What are you going to take? 

Aleclr ' _ r' 

Thank you, I'll take- this chair ^ if you don't mindo I'm 
kind of tuckered out ^ (Sits opposite Billy., puts carpet .bag 
on table) 

Billy 
Get a gait on you, Bendy, get a gait on, (Aleck lays 
umbrella on table, as Bendy exits L U E) 

Billy 
(Indignantly) say you- 

Aleck 
Me? 

Billy • 
Yes you, This table is reserved, 

Aleck 
Is it. 

Billy 
That's what I said„ So don't butt in. 

Aleck 
Butt in? ?/hy I ain't no goat.. 



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Billyo 
You'll think you're a goat. If I start somethingj Say J 

Aleck 
Say it I 

Billy 
I don't want this "flewy" on the table. So I'm going to 
put it so,- (Puts bag on floor) Then I'm going to kick it out 
the window o 

Ale ck 
(Rising in alarm) Don'-HDon'tl It may go offc 

Billyo 
?/ha t go off? 

Aleck o 
Something I've got in the bag; the- annihilatorl If it explodes 
you'll think a powder mill blew up,, 

Billy, 
What dynamite? (Backing away and sits at other table) 

■ j\^ie ck 
Morsei Morsel Be keerfulj (Picks up bag carefully, walks 
after Billy sitting opposite him at other table, puts bag 
on it, business as before) 

Billy 
Keep away from me with that damned thingo (Rising going 
back to first table) What are you carrying it around for 
anyway? 

Aleck 
It's an invention of my friend Van Jiggins, and I am going 
to put' it with several other inventions of his'n on the 
market^ Do you know Jiggins? 

Billy 
No I -don'to 

Alecko 
He's a friend of St^ Eiimo » Do you know St^ Elmo? 

Billyo 
No, and I never met anybody who ever dido (Bendy enters 
with cigar box goes over to Billy, he takes cigar) 

Bendy 
Well, come across^ ■ Q^ 

Charge it, to me,, ^'v<i ^^/r> 

Bendy ^iPfyy, 

Can't do it, ain't made a sale this A, M, yet p ^^ * -X 

• Billy '^'^^^^^ 

Well sell him something, (Pointing to Aleck) and collect '"^ 
for this, (Lights cigar) 

Bendy 
Clarence! Dos't hear? Y/hat are you drinking o 

Aleck 
Why nuthin', I ain't thirsty „ I don't want any of your 
derned drinks, but hold on, (aside) I'd better buy so me thin'. 
of this little gal, just to patronize this store, Have you 
any good buttermilk? 

Bendy 
No, just sold the last drop to a polio eman. 

Aleck 
Have you any sweetl apple cider? 

Bendy 
Now you're on. 

Aleck 
(Rises looks at chair) On what? 

Bendy 
Get next, get next, (Disgustedo) 

Ale ck 
(Looks around) ijext to what? 



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Bendy 
Yourself, learn United S'tates^ or I'll think you're offo 

Aleck 
Oh, I'm off now? 

Bendy 
Yes, you're off your noodleo Do you want some cider? 

Ale ck 
Yes, give me about six cents v/ortho 

Bendy 
Now your shoutings 

Aleck 
I ain't shouting, very loud, take your pay out of thiSo 
(Hands coin. Bendy exits L U E) 

Billy 
Say? 

Aleck 
Say it , 

Billy 
Y/hat us e is this annihilate r? 

Aleck 
It's a corn protector and a crow exterminator « You see the 
crows got so thick down in our parts they they pulled the 
corn up as fast as we could plant it, and they were so sassy 
that shooting at them with a common gun didn't do no good. 
So I got Jiggins to invent the annihilate r^ ?unny you don't 
know Jiggins, 

Billy 
I don't know him and I don't want to know him^ 

Aleck 
He's red headed and he can make anything from a sewing machine 
to a Presbyterian Pulpit „ Y/eil the reservoir of the annihilator 
holds a pound of high explosive and a pint of nail heads, 
and the "barrel telescopes^, So I can lengthen it out two 
feet so (Spreads out hands, catches Billy on nose) Yep c 
Longer-- 

Billy 
Say cut that a (feeling nose) 

Aleck 
Over two feeto Iv/on't cut an inch^ Y/hy I've £^led over a 
thousand crows at a shoto The chickens in Deacon Taylor ' s 
orchard and blew the hind-legs off Uncle Lickshingle-' s 
"Keow"^^ (Bendy re-enters with cider, hands it to Al.e"d^>v 
gives him his change) ^'^il* /^ 

Aleck '^i^ 

Say, talking of cro?irs , do you know anything about crows? '^. 

Bendy 
He knows "Old crow" pretty well^ Don't you Billy? 

Alecko 
If he knows old cro?/, maybe he knows cl.d Bu-zzardc 

Bendy 
Of course, he does^ we all know Old Buzzard, eh Billy? 

Aleck 
Ebenezar Blizzard o 

Bendy 
"Sure that's his name:, 

Billy. _ 
Shut upi Bendy - don't talk so mucho (to Aleck) what do 
you want to know about Buzzard? 

Aleck; 
I want to meet himo 

Billy, 
He ' s ha rd to me et ,, 

Ale ck : ■ 

I want him to do me a favor, a financial favor „ 



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Bendy 
Ylhy he never did anylDOdy a favor in his lifeo' He makes the 
eagle scream on every dollar. He gets hold of ^ He squeezes 
it so tights 

Alecko 
Well, I was told he drops in here, and I want to meet him.. 

Silly 
You're wasting your time, Mr „ ) Mr^-- 

Aleck* 
Smart's my name, 

Billy, 
Smart eh, You look it » 

Ale ck , 
Thanks o My first name is Alexander, Aleck for shorty 

Billy, 
Smart Aleck, eh^ 

Aleck* 
Yep 5 what's your' name? 

Billy 
William Saymor, I am the mayor of the city* You can call me 
Bill<, 

Aleck, 
Y/ell, that's real good of youc I n^ay have to call you 
someday and I won't forget it, 

Billy. 
Bendy, tell Kizzie when she comes in that I've just' stepped 
over to Mulligans to shake up the police department o (exit L U E 

Bendy 
The only shaking you'll ever do will "be for the drinkSo 
Say you don-t want to let a stiff like that kid you* 

Alecko 
Little girl J come here» You! re a nice girl', T)ih.y don't you 
speak English? Tell me, your name is Bendy* That's a funny 
nameo 

B^ndy 
(Pause) It's the only name I've got^, You see I was named 
after a dog^ 

Ale dk 
¥/hat o O^ 

Bendy 
Yes, a iDull dog, named Eendigo, He was a pe t of old MandellDum 
and a ri "bison winner at the dog shov;^ Old Mande'i.^um v/as Mrs, 
Mandel bum's husbands 

Aleck, . "^^W^/^ 

Her Tduhi hustend, yes^ ^^ ""^ 

Bendy 
She's a widow nowo Her husband' is diseased,, 

Aleck. 
You mean "deceasedo'" 

Bendy 
Say, who's telling this you or me? 

Ale ck , 
Go on^ 

Bendy 
V/ell, Old Ms.ndel'bum, he was fond of that dog, and when I 
came to them, and I had no other name, he called me after 
him. 

Ale ck 
Poor little gall So you had no other name, who were your 
people? 

Bendy 
Never had none as I r.ememlDer, They tell me Old Buzzard picked 
me up on a doorstep and "brought me to the Mandel'bum.s^ 



Bendy 
Aleck 



If I had people, we lost ea.ch other somehowo learned careless 
of us« Say,^ what do you vvant to see old Buzzard for? 

Alecko 
(Seriously) I want to show him a christians duty = A duty 
every true man owes to the widow and the orphan, I left 
hehind me a trouhled hearthstone up in the country where I 
come from and I vi^ant to return a messenger of light and glad 
tidings s 

Bendy 
I don't want to put the meri-y Kibosh on you, but you've • 
come to a queer place and to 'queer people to expect to get 
any goodo We i re a tough- bunch, and Ebenezer Buzzard he is 
the wustest of the wust o He ain't got no us e for the widow and 
the orphan^ Mother Mandelbum is a widow and I'm an orphan, 
and look where we get offo ?/hy I never pass him without 
side steppin' c 

Aleck 
What does he beat you? 

I shoiild extemporize 

Y/hat, 

Bendy 
Why, it's only last week he put a mouse on my eye, mouse, 
why this was a rat „ I wish someone would put a cauliflower 
on his ear^ • • 

Aleck 
It ain't the season for cauliflo"Eiers , 

Bendy 
Oh you give me a pain, you're a fresh old doughnut anyway, 
but I sort of like youo Say how long are you going to be 
here? ■ ■ 

Aleckc 
I don't know yet ^ This here is a hotel, ain't it? 

Bendy 
Sure a This is the Home Hotel.. Everybody who stops here ' 
thinks of home 5 this is so different o j 

Aleck= Qq 

Then I guess I'll stop here. / ^l' 

Bendy ■ '^'..^^^^■ 

Say, this ain't no place for hayseeds p If anyone do^saify^ovi, 
don't say I didn't put you next^ ' /^ » / 

Alecko ^^/>^^& 

Ahemi Bendy, I generally attend to my o^mx cleaningo (Re-e^fer '' 
Kizzie L U E followed by Buzzards He should have eccentric 
character make up^, He wears rusty black and his make up 
suggests his name) 

Bendy 
But I'm giving it to you straight c This ain't no place for 
a ministers son, You don't want to stop hereo 

Kiz z i e 
If he's got the "cush" why don't he want to stop hereo 
You little rat,' are you knocking my hotel? I'll take a lemon 
squeezer to you. So wait on this customer, and I'll' attend to 
this gent „ (Strikes at Bendy who dodges blov/) 

Bendy 
(To Blizzard) Y/hat will you have? 

Buzzard 
One large beer^ (Bendy exits L U E) 

Kizzie 
(To Aleck) You want accommodations, I'm pretty full but I'll 
find room for you„ 



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Aleckc 
That's real good of you, 

Kizzie 
Ain't it. Oh ye So Here at this hot el we alv/ays "take the 
stranger in" Is this "Junk" yourn? (Lifts hag, drops it) 
(Aleck picks it up)- Mercy I hope you haven't "brought your 
gold hricks already. I have some of the best on the market 
follow me, and I'll show you where I'll "stick you up" for' 
to-night 

Aleck a 
I'' 11 never get "stuck up" no natter where you put me, 
I ain't that kind, (Kizzie exits Re Aleck follows) 

■ Buzzard 
(Calls) You beggars brat] Hurry up with that beer. 

Ben dy 
(Outside L) I am a hurry in ' « (Enters with schooner of beer) 

Buzzard 
Humph J (takes small bundle from inside pocket slovay opens 
it. counts out five pennies) 1-2-3-4-5" (She puts beer 
on table L. beside him) There, Bendycount them and see if 
there are five or six» 

Bendy 
(Pretends to count) There's only four^ 

Buzzard 
(excited) Eo, five, I hope to die if there ain't five. 

Bendy 
Of course there is, I only wanted to scare you to death. 

Buzzard 
Fivo cents :.s too much for- a glass of beero They're selling 
it at the Greeks for three o (Buzzard shivers) 

Bendy 
Lord bur your shakings 

Buzzard 
I'm coldi (Teeth chattering) C-c-cold. 

Bendy 
V/hy don't you carry an oil stoveoto heat your old cold 
feet. Get a chest protector to warm your old f rapped heart. 

Buzzard 
(Barks at her) Shut up. 

Bendy 
If I was you, I'd get some heavy clothe s< 

Buzzard 
Get me some pepper. 

Bendy 
Pepper? 

Buzzard 
I want it f r my be er , Hur ry . 

Bendy 
I am a hurrying. (Rushes out L) 

Blizzard 
Warm clothesl All very-well for people vtio' have plenty 
of money, but I'm poor. Times are too hardo 

Bendy 
(Re-enters) Here's the pepper. (Holds up shaker) 

Buzzard 
L et me have it . 

Bendy 
Y.here will you have it. In the left eye the right eye or 
the nose? (Puts it under his nose) ' 

Buzzard 
Achew.' Achewi (Commences to sneeze) (Grabbing shaker away 
from her, chases her around- table , sneezing all the time) 

Kizzie 
What's' going on here? 




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Bendy 
He's trying to kiss me. (Buzzard shakes fist at her 
returns to talDle drinking loeer) ' 

Kiz z i e 
Well, v^hy didn't you let him„ Isn't he my landlord. Don't 
I 0¥/e him rent? 

Ughl That lying devil's To rat , 

Ivizzie 
Now Ebenezar-- 

Buzzard 
(Sneezes) Achewl AchewJ 

Bendy 
Old Ebenezaro 

Got pepper up his "beezer" 
Ain't he a sneezer. 
Say, he was shivering to death, a minute ago and now he's 
hot and he ain't satisfied., (Aleck enters L) 

Bendy 
(Aside to Aleck) Say you'd better sing out for something 
to drink ■ 

Thanks Bendy, I ain't thirsty,' 

Bendy 
You know Kizzie don't have any dead ones around here. 

What do you call that. (Point s'to Buzzard) Is that alive? 

Bendy 
Yep. But it hadn't outer be. By the way, that's your nan, 

Alecko 

Eh, 

Bendy 
That ' s Buzzardo 

Aleck • 
Buzzard, By thunder he looks it. He's a carrion bird, all right 
Looks as if he'd lived off dead horses all his life. Veil ' 

I'm here to go through with it , and I can't back out now.' 
(Voice outside L U E) BarkeepI BarkeepI Anybody tending 
bar here^ . ' 

Kizzie ' -> 

(Starts) Do you hear Bendy? V/hy ain't you om your job"? Hurry'- 

Bendy ^ "^-^cf^^ 

I am a hurrying, (exit L U E Kizzie follows) • * 

Aleck 
(Goes over to Buzzard) Good morning sire 

Suzzard 
(Looks up from beer) Well, what if it is good, (Looks at 
Aleck sbarply) I don't know you, I don't believe I ever saw 
you before 

Alecko- 
(Eriendly voice) May be not o Good morning sir. 

Buzzard 
Is that what you come over here to say to me? 

Thats the way I start in until we're better acquainted. 

Buzzard 
I don't want to know youo 

Ale ck 
But you are one of the things that brought me to IJew York. 

Thing? Thing? Do you call me a thing? 



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Al6 ck 
I don't know what I'll call yon before I get through with you 






Buzzard 

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-,., _^ , Alecko 

Sit down] 

Eh. " ^"^2ard 

Aleck. 



Sit down Buzzard. (Puts hand on shoulder forces him down.) 

Buzzard 

You know my name. 

Ale ck 

l:iLil ?TlooMjg"?cr." ^'^"'^^^'■- ^°" -^ ^'^^ particular 

-D + / .T. , Buzzard 

But-- (About to rise again) 

A-i*G clc 
Sit down, Buzzard. (Business as hefore.) 

wu * ■, ! Buzzard, 

What do you Virant? 

Also Ic 
My name is Smart, (Buzzard starfc;l t ^ m ^v. 
Of captain Harr/s:^rt .Tr H^'rll^l^^Setrl T^r/tTrT^H 

Bus 7 P T*f] 

(St_.^a>ers) ;: - l thlni so, but 1 -haven • t tlMe to- (Rises 

have^^rfiSed-il^'IS'^' as'before) Your glass is empty, 
ncive i-c iiiied again. (Bendy enters L U E) ' 

W4TT Buzzard 

Y/ill you pay for it? 

r,r. Aleck 

?t oTofV^^''^^'. ^^^^ *^^^ °1^ ^^^ another drink pay for 
It out of this. (Handing Mil) And keep the cHaSg^-^^ 

r.1 J.-, ' Bendy '^^-^t 

Oh thank you, Mr, Aleck'. (Exit I U E) ^ ^/^/ 

Av, ' ^ Buzzard ^<J>,^J^^ 

Ahem. Your m.oney must come easy, ^' Z^' / 

llTi; S?:ferL^° "^ c^nLt;nce at least is easy. But^^^^^^ 

/a ■ ^ Buzzard 

(Squirms) 

?t%SS/^! :a\"'^^j?L?*^*''" ^°-^^ "-^ — * =— rd 

-^ -, . Buzzard 

I have just remembered an important engagement - (Rises) 

:ir^Tit^/^^iriTi: aS ^i^ ;.%?-:_-- - -= -.e 

T /tvt . n Buzzard 

I - (Nervously) 

Aleck 
You held a mortgage on his home. 

T -u^-i J -J. ^ . Buzzard 

I hold It still. 



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Aleck 
(Takes out pocket book produces telegram) Just -before leavins 
ITew York he vfired his v/ife whom by the way you knew before he 
married her, he sent her a telegram, this- (Reads) "Have 
redeemed the mortgage, am bringing fan the release as a present 
will be home to-night." (Puts telegram back in pocket book) 

Suzzard 
He - he never redeemed it o 

Aleck,-. 
My brother never lied to a man in his life. He couldn't lie 
to the woman he ado redo (Bendy re-enters v^rith beer) 

Buzzard 
Then you mean to say I 

Aleck. 
I mean that you are threatening to fore-closeo Now I am here 
to propose something, you say you still hold the mortgage. 
I will undertake to redeem it. 

Buzzard 
Aho ^ - 

Alecko 
In a short while we ?/ill pay the interest as before, and 
you'll extend the time, 

BiE2ard 
I don't do business that way^ .- . 

Aleck„ 
You will this time to. help the vadow out of her trouble, 
I've come here to see you, for that object as much as to bring 
the murderers of my brother to the Electric chair „ You mav be 
able to help me in that tooc 

Blizzard ■ ■ 

I help — (Rising) 

Ale ck c 
Yes, be a man Buzzard and don't refuse to help the widow in 
her need, of -the memory of the murdered man and the helpless 
wife, he left behind him^ will haunt you to the longest day 
you live, but if you do this act of charity of justice, the glow 
of righteousness will steal into your heart like a sunbeam 
into a shady place « Sit dovm Buzzard or by thunder I'll 
knock you downi (Buzzard runs behind tci,ble.) * 

Buzzard. 
Help: Help] 

■ Bendy 
(Clings to Aleck) Oh Mr. Aleck, don't start nothings (Enter 
Bilxy and Kizzie L U B Kizzie carries bung-starter) 

What's the matter? Who's start.in' anything? Y/hat gent is it, 
would make rough house in the peaceful Home Hotel? (Picks 
up chair \vhich Buzzard has overturned) Gents before you start 
to break up things remember the re = 3 a lady present, (To Aleck) 
By the way, that reminds me, you haven 't br agist ered yet, coire 
and put your "monicker" on the book, and separate yourself 
from some coin. Being as it's you I only collect a week in 
advance, (Takes Aledk by arm, leads him L U E; 

Alecko 
Buzzard I'll see you again., (exits L U B wi th Kizzie J 

Billy 
(To Buzzard who is trembling with excitement) Y.'hat ' s the 
matter, Popi 

Ale ck , 
Eo you knoviT who that is., 

Billy 
YJhat , that Rube, 



Suzzardo 
P.G ' 3 fciae "brother of that sea-daptaln that you — 

Billy 
Hush I (Slaps hand over Buzzard's mouth) (to Berdy) Say, 
haven't you work to do ? 

Bendy 
Yes, thank you, all I want at present,, 

Billy 
Well get alDOut it, Hurry, 

Bendy 
I am a hurrying.-, (Exit L U E) 

Buzzard 
He has "been threatening me about the mortgage and he said too 
that'lae's going to "bring his brother's murderers to the 
electric chair„ 

CLaughs) Indeed, Y/hat had v/e hotter do, Pop? 

Buz zard 
:?asten a quarrel on him, ard-- 

Billy 
Croak him, -yes, we'll croak him, ' ' ' 

Buzzard 
I'm an old man, Billy, You croak him, and I'll swear you 
did it in self defense, 

Billy » 
You'd swear to anything wouldn't you? Sit there. (Indicates- 
chair L at table L) (Produces pack of cards shuffles them) 
(Re-enters .Kizzie and Aleck) 

Billy 
Kizzie, would you like to cut into a little draw poker. 

TCizzie 
¥ot now, -haven't time, perhaps Mr, Smart here — 

Billy 
V/hat that Rube, no thanks = He'd holler if he lost a half 
a dollar. 

Ale ck 
Who 'd- holler? 

Billy 
You— .. On 

Aleck. A ^J^ 

I'll bet you a dime, I wouldn't .- •*'w "^/r^ 

Billy = ^^J^^> • 

You guys are always skinned when you come to town, '-^rf' /r. 

Aleck. ^^^^^^ 

You can't skin mea I beat Deacon Bubey out of a bale of ""^ 
hay last summer » Vfhat are yau going to play*? 

Billy 
Draw poker* 

Aleck 
Never played it, , ' 

,-, Billir 
I'll learn you the game,, It won't cost you nothing till you 
get the hang of it <, 

Alecko 
Eire away, 

Billy 
You deal yowr cards one at a time, (dealing) until you get 
five, then you save your pairs, You know two of a kind is 
a pair^ 

Ale c k„ ■ ' 

Yep, I s ee - you and Buzzard are a pairo 

Billy 
V/hat do you mean? 



14-K ■ 

Alecks 
You're two of a kind. What do you do with theme 

Billy, 
Keep them and throw the -others- avmy . (Aleck keeps two cards) 
(Throws discards on floor) ' ■ 

Billy 
Here, pick those up, Y^e want to use them again. 

Aleck 
Why didn't you say so? 

Billy. 
Now you want to draw three cards. You can ha?-e as laany as 
you want, but this time you just v/ant three. 

Aleck. 
I_want three cards. I can have as many as I want. This 
time I just want three. And th-e man v/ith the most pairs, 
v/ins , ' ' ■ 

■ Billy ■ 
mw 1 bet twenty dollars— (Lays dovm hill) 

Aleck, 
(Picks up bill, reads) "Clam Bank,' Coney Island. Hardshell 
Cashier, Billy Crab Treasurer, Say Mr* Mayor is this bill 
good, 

Billy • 

Good enough, I am the mayor I make them myself. 

Ale ck 
Now what am I to do? 

Billy 
You can raise me, or call me, 

Aleck 
Y/hat am I to call you? 

Billy 
It will take' your twenty dollars to call me „ (Aleck takes 
out sock from which he takes out roll of money, slips off 
twenty replaces sock with mon^y in pocket) 

AX© clc 
There you be, I call you. 

Billy 
Y/hat have you got , ' 

Aleckj 
A pair of two spots and cv pair of three spots ^ 

Billy 
They's no good, I have three pair of five spots, now it's 
your deal ^ . 

A3-e ck 5, 
(Starts to shuffle. Kizzie sneaks np behind him, takes sock 
out of pocket, starts away with it , but sock has small rope 
tied to It and she is brought up v/ith jerk as other end of the 
rope IS tied to Aleck's waist. As Meek turns, she drops 
sock, he haulrs it in, replaces sock) 

AIg ck ^ 
That's another one of Van Jiggins ideas. (Deals cards) 
You say to deal one card at a time until you get five and 
the, man Y/ith'the most pairs wins.. ■ ■■ ' 

Billy. 
That's what I said, (discarding) Give me three cards; 

Al e ck . 
You can draw as many as you'-want but this time, you want three 
I Gives Billy three cards, takes rest of deck himself,) 

Ale ck 
The man v/ith the most .-pairs wins, eh? 

Billy 
Surei 



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Ale ck 
(Picks up Billy(s discards) Fight as well have these two. 

Billy,, 
Yfliat do you 'bet « 

Aleck 
Ten cents J I mean ten dollars. (Puts down money) 

Billy 
I call youo (Covering money) What have you got? 

■ A^.eck, 
I've got seventeen pairs^ 

Billy 
liThat. 

Ale ck ^. 
Yep, Two pair, two spots, two pair three spots, two pair five 
spots, two pair of seven spots, two pair six spots, two pair 
king spots, two pair nine spots t-'o pair jack spots - and Mg 
Casino, hy Gosh', (Kizzie hangs sign on wallj 

Billy, 
That's ho good, I've got a cuckoo flush, (see that sign) 

Ale ck J, 
(Reads) "A cuckoo flush heats any hand to-day, '= What's a 
cuckoo flush? 

, Billy, 

(Takes m money j shows cards) Three red ones and two black 
ne s 

Al eck c. 
Say I had one of those gol-darned things, didn't know it 
was any good„ 

Billy.- 
(Deals) You should have kept it c 

Ale ck 
The man with the most pairs wins but a cuckoo flush beats 
anything eh? Say I'll bet everything I^ve got on this, 

Billyo 
How much have you got ? 

Al eck 
Twenty seven fifty, Q_ 

Billy, ^^^L. 

I 11 cover it, (They lay down money) ^at have '^you got? 

Al6 clc 
Un triumph) I've got one of them cuckoos. (Kizzie Sfe^^/^ 

Billy '^'^^ ^ 

fou lose. (Tries to take money „■) 

Ale ck , 
(Throws his hand off) No J don't^ 

Billy 
Look at the sign^ 

Ale ck 
(Reads) "Only one cuckoo flush'allowed in one game." 

Billy 
And I held that one, So I v/in, 

T^.sndy 
That's a flim-flam] (Grabs money from table) And you're not 
going to work it on my friend, 

Billy ■ 

You little brat, give me that m-oney, I won it. 

Bendy . 
You didn't win on the squire, 

-m. Billy 

Ebenezar take it away from her. 



Suzzard 
(Grats Bendy, takes bills from her) I'yb got it I've 
got it , ' 

I3endy 
(Stn^ggling) You iDunch of crooks, Mr. Aleck, Don't you 
stand for this, why v/hat he bet against you v/as only adver- 
tising stuff o 

Ai Q ck 

Be .luiet little gal I knev/ it/ 

Omne s 
what I - - • 

AXg ck 
Yep„ He bet coney Island money "agains t me, and I bet confederate 
money against him^ It- ain't worth five cents a bushel (Lauff?B ) 

Rube? (Laughs) "^ 

Buzzard. 
(Examining bills) It's true/ Baker, it ^ s true, he's swindled 

Als clc 
TOiat did you call that man? Baker. Billy, So you are Billv 
Baker eh, of the Home Hotel eh,- You're another one of them 
things I came to New York about, 

Billy 
Kizzie you lock Bendy in- the ice box and keep in the bar 
yourself until I call you. 

Kizzie 
Billy, Don't start nothin' for Gawd's sake, don't 

Billy, 
vnu '^L^! I tell you, (Throws Bendy into Kizzie = s ams ) Dajnn 
you, do as I tell you., (Porces them both of f L U E Kizzie 
begging and Bendy screaming and struggling) 
f _ Billy„ 

(Closes door L U E. shuts it, and locks it putting key in 

wTnfJ •? r ^^""'i^ ^°'' ^'^^ sot you, Mr. Man? Ind right 

where I want you. (laughs) '^&'^^ 

AX s c k 

a^whilP^Mn ?°^^i^'/o ^^ile about. Maybe after you have ns 
a while, you'll wish you hadn't, 

First you' 
about you J, 

I ama 

Billy 



Billy. 

First you're going to give me what real money you've got 
about you J, ./ j^u. vc ^vo 

Al e ck 
You think I amj 



Yes. 

. Alecko 

Think again, your firiit think Is "nothink„" 

Billy. 
And then for your freshness, I'm going to cut off one of 
your ears and put it in my pocket? 

AIg cir 
Holy max^kerel] And is old Buzzard there gMng to he^p you 

Billy^ 

01 ^ew York City. I can lick any policeman in the ward„ 

AIg ck 

li?k\?rrt?I'i%''^'r'' ^''^^ up-state ani I never claimed to 
iici more than a postage stamp, but I'm going to keet) mv 

w?l^'^bf v'^^'"' r^ r^^' ^° ^^^i ^^'^y ^"-^^^ Silly S ^h^coroner 
will think a nule has kicked you to death. coroner 

(HandB Billy knife) Better kill him., Billy, icill him at one/ 
I'll testify you did it in self defense . (Billy grate knifS 
rushes on Aleck who up-ends table, getting it'^bftween them 



;e, 



17-K 

Billy throws table around it hits Buzzard who howls with 
pain) 

Aleck a 
(Pulls annihilator levels it) Beware the annihilatorj 
Get out of herej or I'll blow you both to Kingdom cornea 
(Throws annihilator out full length Billy and Buzzard jump 
out window) 



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2nd Curtain:- 

Ale ok , 
(Br eats door in L U E) Mother Ma nd el bum you let Bendy out of 
the ice box or I'll blow up your whole damned Hotel„ (Bendy 
and Kizzie re-enter Aleck flourishes annihilator. Kizzie 
screams coaJLapses in chair, Aleck explains in pantomime for- 



C U R T A I E, 
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Act Second,, 

Scene:- Sitting room of the Home Hotel. 



1, 1 



X 



II II II I! li II M II II ir TT 



(1) Door in flat. Interior -backingo (2) Window in fl^. 
Exterior Toacking, (3) Door I 2 E Lock and key. Interior 
tacking. (4) Door R 3 E, (5) 'Coucli, (6) Table and 
chairs. (7) Screen <> Lamp on taole. 



oooOOOOOOOooo 









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DiscoYered at rise:- Billy is in shirt sleeTes' asleep on 
0^+^;^^''^^^'^ ^''^^''^ hurriedly L dcor in flat, turns up lamp 
on talole, then goes over to Billy, shakes him by shoulder) 

IBt_i2 7 r^ y c\ 
Get up, Billy, Wake up J \7ake up I 
. Billy. 

Sleepily) what 's the mtter? I wish you'd let me alonsc 
(Sits up on couch) ¥/hat ' s eating you? ^unec 

Buzzard 
I'm nervous. The police wouldn't hold that fellow 

Billy 
llhat fellow? 

^ ' Buzzard 

Ylhy, that Rube, 

Billy, 

Sins^Vlnft'hP^'rr ''^^ "'*^ ''^""'* ^^ carrying concealed 
weapons? Dijn't he threaten us with that cannon-? Didn't thev 
find It on him? pon't the Sullivan law expressly say they ^ 
can send a guy up for seven years for packing a guS unless 
he has a special license^ . ^ unless 

Buzzard' 

l^l'rJ'^l-^^n ^^^^ ^^° ^^Slit. Ha's a deputy Sheriff 
from Columbia County engaged on detective duty"! 



Buzzard' 
c rigl- 
.ged 01 
Billy^ 
Y/hat, that Rube? 

Buzzard 
Yes, 

Billy 



mI S^? v^^^ ^^^* j^tice, V/hy look at v*.at they did to 
big Jack Zeligi Held him in ten thousand' bail and on a ?r^« 
up too, and him belonging here on the lowe? EaS SiL JSts 
are going to hell here in little old Uew York I think im ■ 

Zrsl\^T^,IV^-r^^'' '-'^^ --^^- Mve^'sJmf J?L^le^^es, 

Buzzards 
l^l captain_ slapped him on the back and wished him luck in 
Selp Sim?''''' ""^ '^''- ^^ ^°^^^ --^* -- ^^^ pc^ioe to^ 

Billy., 

rjL\\1„?„V"t'£t%^^^" *'-^'' '''^' "^"^1 -"■• ^^. '^1^ what 

. , ,, . ^ Buz-zard 

-r. • T ■ Billy, 

To^^ui'^i r^^ ^^^^i^ '^- ^^'^1^ ^ ^^i^k I-d better get Mzzi e 

^Sn?rila^o^^^-d^?ha^-do^u°h-he-Sa^:So^t-ss!^ ^- --"- 

TT J ,j. J. • Buzzard^ 

he don't touch booze, onlv oi.-^pr p-iTT-,r ^.. ^;^ .*.•,.-, 

next wee.. (.»„l„,Xy)%;r;L^l:^.^ortL"?liraser:n1°!^ " 

B3.11y 

^ , ^. , Buzzard. 

You know that I am grateful „ 



3-K- 

Billy, 
Grateful, Say laefore you get those papers. I want my Mt, 

T Z^^Fz..^° ^^® ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^°"*^^ 0^ thanks, what do you think 
i heit his bean in for - my health? forget it. I spoiled a ■ ' 
new ram coat m the job- too, that cost me over thirty bucks, 
a.^>.!°'"^^''T i^-^. ^2 Pie<^es. He was a tough guy^ He'd a done me 
sure, If I ha an' t had a black jack and hit him from behind. 
He moaned that he was fighting for "Mary" just before J- 
put the finishing touches to him^ I vender who was Mary, 

Buzzardo 
His wife] Damn her J Oh I would like to have seen her face 
as his body was carried in, 

Billy. 
Oh, you k©Bsr her, eh, 

B^uzzard 
Knew her? Why man, she' has nade me what I am. She was the 
f?»^J It \'^l misery. She jilted me for her first husband, 
the father of her- child, and then when she became a widow. 
I wooed her again„ And the second tim.e, she threw me over 
and married the man you have just murdered, 

Billy, 

Cut out that v^ord "murdered" imke it "croaked" It means 

just as much and it don't jar my nerves like "murdered" 

Ugh. Murder sounds like the death chamber and the Electric 

chair. So this Dame Mary is twice a widow eh? 

Biozzard 
Ye s . 

Billy, 
And she »s 'got a Kid, eh. 

Buzzard 
She had. Her baby daughter was stolen away when she was 
about two years old, (smiles) 

Billy 
And who did the kid-napping, you? 

Buzzard 
I didn't say I did„ 

- Billy. 
You don't have to" say it, (Pause) Well, well, what a dirty 
old crook you are I ain't no cherub but you've got me beat 
forty ways for Sunday, 

(Whining) Y/e're like father and son, Billy. 

Billy, 
Cut that 2 I don't like the relationship, 

Buzzardo 
And you'll let me have those papers of mine, Billy ' • 

Billy,- 
Yes for fifteen hundred dollars » 

B-uz zard 
Til/hat I Do you want to ruin me? 

Billy ,, 
Ruin you? You'll be that much td^food on the deal. 

Buzzard 
¥/ell, well, I'll give you the money „ 

Billy 
?/hen, 

BiAzzard 
To-morrow, 

Billy 
It ' s a bargain. 

Buzzard 
Let me look at them now. 



4-K 

Billy« 



KlL\"a IS sarBSIardT^cJ^fS^f *??" ^°^ -^ -ty with 
-ght hire so„e„„???'^?i3 tt"e* l^lj^^^^r^e'™^* "'"• ^°" 
Dh PiTi,'. T„ Buzzard, 

un J3illy, how you wrong me 



Billy 



She's grown to woman hood now?^ 

(Puts on coat) Do you know^'whl're she is' 
Oh yes, . Buzzard 

Did you bring her up? ^ ^' 

Ahpm' T -h^ XI 1, n Buzzard 

Anem, j had her brought up» • 

How? Billy, 

(Fiercely) By the hair n-?^^^i^ 

known the JoTs ol Sildhood she'ts^' J^""^"^^ ^ ^^ '"^ — 
Tilest of the vile I ho^f tn « \ ^" reared among the 
and then I will h?ing the heggarm^th."" 'f2^^~ ^^^i-inal 
together and let them know if ^^s my wo .kf '^ daughter 

pSt ^<:^LnVlll\:%^:\£^^^ -J'- '^'^ ^°- to 

Detective" You are- not fif f' ^^^^^^^te for that "Rube 
(Exit door in flat, R at'^^,^°f ^7^/°^ ^ minister's son. 
Picks up the "butt" of BiSy^s Jl /^""f ^°l^ over to couch, 
breaks it up in corn io^ i.-"^ cigar cuts off piece of it 
Piece Of paper iS;Sicha?e'^:rSi'? he produce?, pulls o^ 
Of Billy'scigar in it aboSt f?T >,.°^^^'' ^"^ts, puts remainder 
Bendy as she^.ptoes ac?o\°f s^^ge^^^^feV^^f - J| ^-- 

ihrXi^ jr^^L'L"^"^^ ^^^^^^ ^- down stage) What you, 
.ustnow, --dy. ^^^ 

Where were you going? ^^^^^^^^ ^^'^ 

Down stairs again. ^^""^^ 

Oh you came up-stairs and^'heSI" 

Then I go do.^ stairs, yes^sir. 

Why did you come up. ^^^^ard 

Just to come up sir, "^ 

And then go down- Buzzard 

To go dorm, sir. ^^""^^ 

But— Buzzard 

I seen you "swlvinp-" "Rt m -rr? • 



guy sir. 



5-K 

Bah I 

Yes sir. 

You are lying to me 



Euz z a rd 

nendy 

Buzzard 



-V ■ T Bendy 

les sir, I - I mean no sir,. 

I^d^ut^o^f r"" ^^ ^^^^ listening to Billy and myself • 
see one/ ° ^hoe-^strings , l^ut I toiow an^ idiot Sen i 

rPT. 1 BSndy 

Thank you, sir, . , ^ 

tim-u 1 .. ^ Buzzard 

"Thank me" for what? 

_, , . Bendy 

3^0 r being an idiot, 

mercy Aleck ^in??n? l^^}^ ^'^ ^""^^^ in attitude of imploring 
mercy Aleck pulls out bandanna handkerchief • wipe s forehead 

Irorhim'^gSn'Jrom fjo'S 'r^^'t ^^^ ^^^'^^ B^JrTUt^ 

falling 0Yfr?tI??nV w ^ ^""^"^ f*^^^^ ^^^^^ in^° «°uch 

up mffs ?o? doo^ P i?^^' T^^!' °°''^°^' B^^^rd scrambles 

up makes for door, e.ats Aleck stands by open door crash heard) 

f-r, • K Bendy ' 

(Excitedly) T/hat is that? Oh, where is Buzzard? 

Ale ck 

To'lo^^lTy tre lay!"- ' "^^P™*--^ ^-- I ^«w Ld do It - 

Bendy, 
Oh Aleck, I'm so glad to see you out. 

Ale ck 
Out? (Looks around,) 

Bendy ■ 
I meaji out of the station house ^ 

Aleck J 
V/ell, I'm glad to see you glad. 

Bendy 

^r.^ ^ ^!i^ ^^ worried about you as if I ' d been - I 'd be en 
your mother „ j- u lg en 

AIg gIc 

III " ^^ ^^"^.°{ ^^"^y^ ^^* y°" Icok strange Bendy Oh I 
see you've washed your face, and fixed your hair! ' ' 

Bendy 
Yes, you see - this is Saturday.- 

Aleckc 

^l.^Tl ^\" '^^- ^^ you'Te got a clean frock on. Have vou 
tried to stop using the slang, I wa^rrned you about-- ^ 

Be ndy 
Sure Mike i And I'm going to tie a can to it for keeps Oh 
say Aleck look out for Bronx Billy and Buzzard. They';e going 
to put up a job on you, ^ g^ing 

AIg nl<" 
Don't you worry little girl, I'm going to put uo a inh nr, 
them The fellow Bronx Billy who las going'^^o cSt re' Lto 
steaks, his name is V/illiam Baker, eh? ° 

Bendy 
Yep Y/illiam Baker, but he ought to be Y/illiam '^Butcher" 



6-K 

ATLeckc 
Did you ever hear Mm spsak of a lady called Pearly. 

Bendy 
What - Pearl "Osborne," 

Tha t ' s the name > 

Bendy 
Why I seen her, sure, Pearl Osborne is a ''skirt" vaiat's 
stuck on himc 

Ale ck , 
A "skirt stuck on him"? I suppose that's, some more of 
your s Ian go 

■ Bendy 
(Penitently) Oh I forgot. Pearl is or was his sweetheart, 
but he don't talk about her around here, he'd lose his meal 
ticket, with Mother T./landelbum, Pearl and her had an awful 
scrap over Billy, Pearl slammed Mother Mandelbum in the 
slats, and she chewed Pearl's ear off^, 

Aleck, 
I've got you, Bronx Billy, I've got you. 

Bendy 
Oh Aleck, go away from here or Billy vail get youo I don't 
know what you think you've got on liim but he's bad all through. 
Please go and go now, Aleck, it would kill me if anything 
happened to you, ^ ^ 

Als clc 
You like me little gal„ 

Bendy 
Like you? 

Ale eke 
I know I can trust you, Listen] (T&ies out pocket book) 
(shows letter) (Kizzie appears at door, she carries a 
small pitcher and glass) 

Al ©clc 

The man who murdered my brother wore a raincoatHarry must 

Imve made a fi^t for it, as the coat was found near the body 

all torn to pieces^ The murderer threw it aw§ry. The torn 

coat itself is not much clue but in the pocket vms found this 

? J L -f 1^^^^^ addressed .as you see, (shov/s letter) and 
signed "Pearl Osborne" y cu u. 

Kiz zi e 
(Utters cry, staggers leans against door janb) (Aleck and 
Bendy turn. Aleck starts up towards Kizzie as if to assist 

Kiz zi e ' 
Thanks' Thanks,' Oh I'm all right. I'm a little lightheaded 

• i °! V f "^^^^'^ ''^S?'' to-day. (Aleck puts back letter 

m pQ©ket book m breast) 

Kizzie 
Bendy, haven't you nothing better to do than to stay up 
here, annoying this gent and him wanting to go to bed. 

Alecks 
She's good company, Mrs. Mandelbum, 

IJl^in^^'' *?^^° ^^ ^1^ '"°''^^ ^^^'^ ^^^^y^ stalling around'. 
Ge.t along with youj (Bendygoes up slowly pauses at door) 

l^Zf^^f^f^'^t ^^''' Smrt,' seeing as how much you like cider, 
that you'd like some more before you go to bed. (Pours out 
some m glass) 

Alecks 
That's real kind of you, sometimes v/hen I've a pint I 
sit up till ten o'clocko ^-^''^7 



7-K ' - 

Bsr-dy 
Don't drink it, don't - don't-— 

Kle ck . 
Pshaw- cider ain't intoxicating. I can drink a tarrel 
of it c (drinks from glass) 

Kizzie 
(to Bendy) Get out or I'll change your map ed that your own 
mother if you had one couldn't tell you from Kid Broad » 
(Bendy with a despairing gesture exits door in flat) 

Kizzie 
Are you going to stay long in New York, Mro Smarts 

Alecko 
Just long enough to complete my business ^ 

Kizzie 
And what is your business? 

Ale ck , 
At present I am in the fancy iron business o (Exhibits hand-- 
cuffs) Heres a little incrention of my friend Van. Jiggins, 
It's called a patent regulator" I am going to try to unload 
it myself and get it on the hands of a couple of parties here 
in New York„ And when I do- I - I - (Yawns) I think I'll go 
back home. Say, I think I'm sleepy- (Puts handcuffs back in 
pocket) I'll - I'll go to - to bed if you don't mindo 
Good night I (Exits unsteadily L 2 E) 

Kizzie 
Tfeem knock out drops is angelic c I didn't have to give him 
a second dose. He* 11 be dead to the world in 'a minute s Y/hat 
did he mean by talking about that cat , Pearl Osborne to 
Bendy, That seemed to be a letter of "hern" that he had, 
(goes over cautiously to door L peeps in) He's thrown himself 
dov.ii on the bed, with his clothes ono Humphl He ain't no 
christian or he wouldn't do that I I'd better get on mj? 
"touch" jobo The effects of that mj.te of chloral hydrate 
won''t last long, (She exits cautiously L 2 e) 

Bendy 
(re-enters crosses quickly and quietly to R 3 E exits for 
couple of seconds repppears vrith vials) (Plolds it up) 
Kizzie 's smelling salts and aroinatic spirits of pneumonia 
that she uses to get over her jags* I'll watch my chance and 
wake him up» (Door L 2 E re-opens Kizzie re-enters Bendy 
draws behind screen at bac) 

Kizzie 
(Has pocket book and the Annihilator) I pinched his leather 
and the Annihilator, I guess I'll put the Annihilator in the 
bath tub and let the water run on it o (She locks door L 2 E 
leaving key on outside, then exits R 3 E) (Bendy steals 
down from behind screen unlocked door L 2 E taking key, 
exits and locks door from insice) 

Kizzie 
(Reoenters with pocket book in hand takes out bills counts 
them) Eighteen bucks. Well he ain't' no "Pierpont Morgan" "■ . 
never mindc I '' 11 put it in the banko (slips money into 
stocking) Now these papers., (goes, over papers, holds up 
letter) The letter., (Reads) Mr-, Y/illiam Baker'« The Home 
Hotel. 99 Chrystal St ^ and its from- that dameo I'll fix 
her for daring to write to my Billy„ (Takes out letter reads) 
"My own Darling Honey boy Bill:- I've got the use of Abe 
V/insbergs auto this week. See if you can't chloroform that 
old chromo Kizzie and we'll go to Coney's Isle together, 
and we'll have supper at the same joint as last Y/ednesday 
It just mabes me sick to think of my own sweetness being tied 
to an ugly \7ithered fossil old enough to be his mother^, ?ly 
the coop precious boy, and we'll go to Chicago, Get all you 
can get out of her, and then give her "rough on rats" 
Your baby Doll, - Pearl Osborne, ?)a Sp I send you a million 
kisses. 



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,Ohi OhJ Oh- (Walks to and fro in rage) 1^11 find her, I'll' 
spoil her face "chloroform that old chromo Kiszie" eh, and 
they mean me, me, and I've let him have my money. I've "been 
tfee t)est friend he ever ha,d,. I'll thro?/ acid in his fiace. 
1,11-- and to think how J loved that m.an, oh the snake. 
Snakel (Sohs hysterically) (Enter Billy door in flat) 

Billy 
Hello Kizziel Have you done the joh? 

Kizzie' 
Yes, I,ve done it, I've done it ^ 

Billy 
What did you find. , 

Kizz'ie 
Oh I found enoughs 

Billy, 
Enough money, or enough what? 

Kizzie 
Enough to make me want to murder you, you dogo Chloroform 
that old chromo Kizzie' eh? Did you? Give me rough on rats. 
I'll rats" iDoth of you. 

Billy 
^S/hat in hlazes are you talking aToout. 

Kizzie 
Oh, I'm T/ise novir, I know a^.j ahout you and Pearl Oshorne, 

,. B;i.lly_, 
I thought ¥ire had hurled that,, I haven't seen her for a year » 

j;\.J.ZjZ .J, e 

Oh you liai o You liar ,-, 

• Billy 
You know I only love ycu^ 

' Kizaie 
You crocodile. You snake-. 

Bii:,y 
See here, I am sick of your nagging, no-^j cut it out, or I'll 
shake you for goodo I am thinking of going to Chicago 
anyTT/ay » 

Kizzie 
So that hussy saido But you shan't trim me out of any 
money to go onr. 

• Billy 
I don't want your moneyc V/e'd 'better end this right now,. 
Give me that enveloije, I handed you to keep for meo 

Kizzie 
I haven't got it « 

Billy 
Don't lie to me. 

' Kizzie 
Casey has it in the ss-fe, 

Billy 
Come down with me, and get it- 

Kizzie 
I \7 on ' t . 

Billy 
Yes you will, 

Kizzie 

I ViTon' t , 

Bi:i.l3' 
I want to raise some dough on it .> 

Kizzie 
I'm not going to help you to he happj' with that cat. 



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You-|ll do as I tell you, or l ^ n persuade you in the usual 

You shall not, never again!^^^^ • ' ,' , 

CasiJ anJ\.Iy''You.5e'"Lf'^'^^ ^°^ ^'^ ^^^^^ ^° -^ -^°-t 
tear the whole pladtn ^.7 property in your room. Jlil l 

ooMng to me°'^?i?o':s'he?'lo^:S L) "'"' ' ' '" ^"."^ "^"'-'^ 

a??er\^"anl ^ra^^hl' 4^^^^''''-^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^-^^t- (^-^ 
• struL?f^o?? H-^ ?^ ^m' ^® strikes her she screams, they 
struggle off together #3R E) (Noise continued off stkge) 
fr, , • -, s Xizzie 

Re-enfer liii' H^V' v^°^''' ^''°^''^^ ^^--^^' ^^-^ silence) 
are ??oodv w.^L t>.^°°^' ^^^^'^^ 1°°^^ ^^ ^^^ i^^^^s which / 
orta^L^d^Lt. ??^rr''^^?^^^"^^"^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ left 
key in lock door TP^^''^ ^^""^^^ ^-°°^ ^^ ^^-^^^ ^Sound of 
.o?e^^l^°:^y^°£LL| ^f??:?s TZillir' leading .Aleck who 

Bendy 
Here, let me open this T/indow„ The fresh air will brabe- von 

K iz zip - 

(Re-enters R 3 E She crawls on stage her clothing is tern and 

q^h^Sr'-'-'^ "^? ^'^ ^^'^^ ^^°"^ the%ffect 0? the^eatin^ 
- She moans as she drags herself along J 

Bendy - ' ' 

(As she turns from window, catches sight of KLazie and 
screams goes to her L Aleck staggers to feet, makes his > ' 
way^with difficulty and endeavors to assist Bendy who is " 
trying to help Kizzie to couch) j' v u is 

(S'aintly) Bendy- Phone for a^.octor, quick^XSinks on„couch)' 

r^ . Bendy "W^i. 

(On sign from Aleck, exits door at back) 6^ -V/?/^ ■ 

Aleck. ■ ^<J^<^//>- ' 

(V/ho IS supporting Kizzie as she is seated on cou^>.v ' /q 
Who has done this? ^^^ A? 

Kizzie <^ 

Never kind I I'll get hunk, he shan = t live happy with }ier 
(sinks hack on pillow, head down stage) (In pain and sobbinff) 
Has Bendy gone? . . , ■ 

Al ec k. 
Yes , 

Kizzie " ' • 

Good littl-e scout, Bendy - I- - I don't want to go before ' ■ 
I tell her v/ho her folks are - 

Aleck . 
If you know, in God's name'tell me, . ', , 

• Kizzie 
Time enough J Time enough,? V/here did you get this D.etter from . 
that Osborne woman o 

Aleck . , •' 

(^'eels breast, realizes he has been robbed, takes letter.- 
which is crumpled up in Kizzie' s hand) I took it out of the 
pocket of the rain coat left by my brother' ' s murdererc ' 

Kizzie ■ '. . ' 

(Moans) It's him, my Godo It's him. 

Aleck. 
You know, speakl I don't want to make any mistake, and wrong 
the innocent , .-■.•- 



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(ReQenters) The doctor is^'coSng as fast as he can' " 

A.16 ck 
Speak woman, Speak that justic; may l^e done, who is the mn. 
T,T^ -r t ^■^iz z i e 

No, I'm game, I never snitch on a pal, never, never, ■ 

AXcck 

witSi^i °^^n^^'''''-^^° ^°"'^ SO -before the thronG of grace 
ll m^?S ^ ''^°'' y°^^ ^°^1- Atone on earth that -you 

Toay claim mercy m Heaven, • 

Tviz zip 
(Is silent, except for lahcred breathing) 

Bendy 
She has fainted, ■ ■ ' 

Aleckc 

I fear she is dying oEendy, down on your knees with me, and 
let us pray, (Kneels) ' 

Bendy - ' 

(Kneels) I don't knov/ how to pray, Alecks 

Alecko 
Repeat after me, Bendy, (with feeling) "Our Pather- - who 
art m Heaven" (Bendy repeats) Hallowed he thy name I 
(Buzzard enters as prayer hegins; 

Alecko 
Thy Kingdom comeo 

Buzz3,rd 
¥/hat stuff is this? Are you carrying on a Salvation Army 
meeting. 

Ale ck o 
(Rises, grahs Buzzard drags him to window, throv/s laim out 
falls on knees again) "Tliy will he done - on earth—- 



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Act Third, 

Sy'S disoolpf r^J' '^"^'^"S room of the Hon« Hotel. 

Aleck 
What little gal, are you up already? 

AT T -r -, Sendy 

^!un/.STi\^''V° ^^'^■^^ ^11- I'^e heen sittinr up 
waiting and watching for you. Tell me, how is Mother Mandelbusi? 

Aa-G ck 

SJeadf ii^"-"'^' ^^i ^^S^^' ^^^"^^^ ^° 1^^^^ ^^^ hospital 
axready, she's a wonderful '^oman, the police tried to 

whJI.eYe?: ^^^^^^<i ^° say a word, or maJce any charge 

. ^ , Sendy 

Did she say anything about me.- 

Alecko 
She dido 

Bendy 
What was it? 

Aleck. 
Well, I shouldn't like to tell you. 



Please ., 



Sendy 



Ale ck = 
She said you were a cunning little cat to hlock her scheme of 
doping me, and when she came out of- the hospital she was 
going to make you into chacken stow. 

Sendy 
And nothing more about who I really am, or about my people, 

Aleck, 
]^[othing ny poor little gal. nothing- but keep up a brave 
heart. Even if she don't do you rights When I go from here, 
you shall go with me^ You shall live among honest people 
and take your place among God's creatures o By the way, any 
signs of the vermin. Baker and Buzzard, 

Sendy 
Yes, Buzzard is all lamed upc Baker and him' had an avrful 
time with Casey to get him to open the safe^ 

Aleck- 
And he won't do it T/ithout Mrs, Mandelbum' s orders » Yes 
he told me all about it. He's a square Irish man is Casey 

Sendy 
And now they are plotting burglary I heard theme 

Ale ck . 
I know that too« a stool pigeon v^arned the police how he had 
loaned them the tools. They must v/ant that envelope pretty 
bad. I wonder what's in it? 

Bendy 
It must be that mortgage paper they spoke of.. Buzzard says 
he wanted to get those blood stains out. (Aleck clenches 
his fists raises them to Heaven.) 

Bendy 

?/hy what are you doing? 

Alecko 
I'm just praying a little, again Bendy, and I think God's 
going to answer my prayer ^ 
^ . Bendy 

What have you in that bundle, 

Alecko 
A rsiq^rnise I had to get a disguise you know. Detectives always 
tave disguises I capLred a whole ga^g of horse thieves 
once in disguise. 



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were ,ou in disguise or tS'lj.se thieves in ais^ise^ 
Oh, quit your kidding » ^^^^^^ 
my Aieck, you are talkinfsSng. 
SO I a^, well I'll tie a ^n'to if 
Why that's more of it, ^^"^^ 

I don't'^?r'tL^"T ."■„""■* ""isnt f°r me to preach what 
(tSSs w?rSh k4rs"\o?''''h,'t''^'°/""?'' expressive, 

No. ^^""^y. 

Ao c^k 
I am going to he Mrs» I^ajideltas uncle from Kotoken^ 

-n • -, , Bendy 

But he ' s dead. 

Als ck 

iv/°ijf ^°^^ ^^^ liveliest dead one, Buzzard and that other 

I3ird ever fell up against c Bendy Mother Mandel^um's uncle 

IS to he resurrected, just this once^ It's lucky he is 

SSn-^/JTr"^^!!^ ^^^^ ^^ "^^ iMtation, (Puts on coat, stands up) 
Behold "Knyphuysen ArchumpJ" (Poses) Take my other things 
inside, and stay there till I call. (Bendy gathers ud 
other clothes exit into room L 2 E) 

Aleokc 
(Takes out hand cuffSj examines them) Oh. they're all right 
Jiggins made them^ He's a handy cuss^ (puts them "back in ' 
pocket) I wish he was here no^-^to hold B.ujozard v;hile I 
'settle with the other crook.. (Enter Buzzard door in flat, he 
starts on seeing Aleck) 

Ale ck . 
Buzzardj hy thiindero' (In german dialect) Voll, Gum in. 
Gum- in-, Or stay oudt,o pon'd clog up rait yourself the door- 
wayo Vat you vant, eh? Vat you vant? 

Buzzard 
I am the Landlord and - and I've come for my rent = 

Ale ck 
What rent 3 at such a time as this^ 

Buzzard 
It is six in the morning, and I an an e-arly risero 

Aleck,. 
Whatl (Loudly) My niece i s no t here. 

■ Biozzard 
Your niece, are you Mrs„ TTandelbums Uncle? 

Alecku 
Yah, from Weehawkenj I am Knyphensen A.rchumpo 

Buzzard 
How do you spell it? 

Alecko 
I don't spell it „ I sneeze it, or cough ito 

Buzzard ' 
Well, will you "cough" up my rento 

Alecko 

Feini Ueini 

Buzzard 
'Fein, nein* It's a hundred. Have you sjiy idea where Mrs, 
Mandelhiim has gone^ 

Ale ck 
ITein I hope she has gone to Heaven, but I haf my doubts. 



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What, dead, 

AILg ck 

Ifll ^t^ ^^^ ^^^^^'^ ^^^ growlo;.-, That is why I am here f rom - 
Weehawben^ possession to ta].e of efer thing .Ach, Poor 

Buzzard 
But I can't lose my rent, when- will they bury her, 

AIg ck 
After the inquest c 

They shan't bury her till I get my rent« 

I'll attach the corpse, 

Alecko 
(Loudly) Buzzard, sit down,, 

Busza,rd 
Eh'» (starts) How do you know my name is Buzzarda 

Aleck* 
My niece toldt me, her landlordt was a wall-eyed, spavined 
dunghill Shanghai rooster, but his name was Buzzardo 

Buzzard 
Did she tell you before she died, 

Aleck, 
Yah« she couldn't tell me it after she died, Dum Kopfl 

Biozzardo 
And is that the only v/ord she left for me o 

Aleck» 
Heiiij she saidt , Tell dot olit Christmas gift dot unclean 
olvit bird, Bi;izzard that I am going to Heaven, He can go 
to ~ to the odder place » 

Buzzard 
Didn't she tell you to pay the rent? 

Aleckg 
Nein, she said, if ycu come aroimd for the rent, I should 
dust the furniture mit you^ 

Buz zard 
Dust the fiirniture with me? See here I vsQ^to be settled 
with— 6. -Ko, 

/JLeck. '^v^Qa, 

Yah, she saidt, dot- she saidt JS making a 6a^t6f/y£ you 
didn't settle you, I was to break your back and' ^^i^/^ndows 
mit you, (Grabs Buzzard,) ^/^^ A? 

Buzzard 
You're a lunatic. Let go, you -crazy Dutchman 1 

Aleck, 
Set down BuzzardJ (Grabs Biozzard by coat', Buzzard wriggles 
out of coat, leaving it in Aleck's hands. It is seen then 
that Buzzard has no shirt on, only under collar and dirty 

shirt cravat) 

Buzzard 

(Calls) Police] Policel 

Billy« 
(Enters carrying tools in bag) ?/hat's all this noise,. 

Buz zard 
It's Kizzie's crazy uncle from V/eehawken„ Ke says Kizzie is 
dead, and he's here to talce charge smd— 

Aleck 6 
(yjifh dimity) Is it necessary to tell this man all my 
nrivatf business? Y/hat is he? The "plumber" that he comes 
in here - like - like Bismark. 



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Billy. 



See here I ain't -^^--Liy. 

toe, Buziard hops am''L™L";itS'';^f n!)* °" *°°'-" °" ="^=^^■■'1' 

KC^PIU..... eh. Then .hat ^'„??-„, , ,_,^ ,,^,^„,^ ^^^ 

1 -in.t no ^chanic. I neJJr^Sd a day's v^rk In .y life' 

I believe you, Alecic, 

^miat do you mean by sayinf KiJ^i.-. is dead. 

She telephoned she v/as d^art =,.^ t v -i • 

woman tells me, ' "^ ^ believe everything a 

You do, well, you're a soft one « 



¥fliat is your business? 



rr ■ T Alec]£. 

¥ein, I won't tell you. You might tell someone else, 

Ho, I'm too much of a gentleman to blab, 

Al eck 
Si he^'l^ws''^'' """' ■'^^' "Buzzard thing" there- Ee tells 
. • Billvo 

(Aside to Buzzard) This gay is nu± ty all right, we're wasting 
time^ go down and be by ;7hen Casey leaves the Lr, and Jet ^ 
me know. I've arranged for a fake message from the SospltL 
to him, we'll tnen have a fair chance at the safp I ' ?? tftp 
care of this mutt { (Indicating Aleck) ^^^ sale, I n take 

Buzzard 
(Smtches up coat which Aleck has thrown down puts it on 
gets up to door, shakes fist at Aleck) You piece of Eutih 
cheese, I'll fix you yet, (Exit door in fiat) 

Billy„ 
(Stopping Aleck as he starts after Buzzard) Don't mind him 
Tell me, what do you do for a livingc ^ ^ ' ^ ™-na nim^ 

Al eck » 
(Mysteriously) I make tools, the finest tools in the vrorld 

Biliyo " 

What kind of tools? 

Ale ck , 
Burglars tools- 

Billy 
(Starts) Y^^at , what are you giving me , 

Ale ck ^ 
The straight goods, Bronx Billy ^ 

Billy 
V/hat you know me <, 

k^.ec'k 
Of course I know you, I would like to propose you to 
my lodge., 

Billy 
Y/hat lodge. 

Ale ck 
I am a mem-ber of the Burglars' Union, and in good standlnc- 
Billy I am a great inventor, *^ 



rs and 



Inventor, eh"? ('a=!THo> >t ^i'!'"^'^'' 

5 «^i. laside) Nov I'm sure he's off. 

I have scmethine herp ti^^°^' 

pocket) ^ ^' ^^1 ^^°^' It to youo (reaches in 

Invention eh*? an+ i+ w-; +v, "^ 

(Reaches for'A^eck'^ ?noV J°^' ..^"^ ^" ^^^^P ^^^'^ ^^^ i* ' 

as Billy has tothh^.J. .' Aleck -produces hand-cuffs 

cuffs oi ..,^?J-^l,^J^^^^^^,^ 3^3 

a mSe to'' mou^fri ^^g^^'^'^^^- '^^-^ey'H i^old anything from 
■ and I find%W ' ir ^^^^ ^^-""^ ""'' f°^^ legged cattle, 
aaughs) '^'" ^'^^^^ '°" ^"° l^Sged cattleT^Do you seL 

V X Billy. 

Se tVer^f^i *;^ '^-^ -■ "-^= '- °«. I» you ..ar, 

Al'^ck ■ 
Fo, :|: won't take 'em off, I^say, 

Billy 
Why not? . 

Als clc 
Because I've had too much trouhle to get them on. 

Billy 
Trapped h^ thunder, what do you want of me o 

I want your full confession of the cowardly murder of ' 
Captain Harry Smart, and by thmider I'm going to get it, 

Billy 
No you ain't» (Rushes on Aleck) (Endeavoring to strike him 
with hand-cuffs Aleck grapples" him, throws him on table) 

Aleckc 
Be quiet, dern you, or I'll throttle you with my hands 
before judge and jury get their chance « 

Billy,, 
Who the devil are you? Q^ 

/J.eck, Jr^y 

(throws off disguise) I'm Aleck Smart. DepSfeju a^«Lf f from 
up State, ' ^^>^^ 

Billyo ^^u' ^Qj 

And you're arresting me on sus-picion, eh = ^/f?^ « 

Aleck, '■ '^' 

I'm arresting you on a dead certainty;, Why this watch your 
wearing was my broths rso I gave it to him myself. Your 
traps here have been gone over b^'- the police, they found 
my brothers' coin purse, his v;ife made for him the shark's 
tooth he carried as a charma 7/illiam Baker I've got you dead 
to rights, and you'll be tried for m-order as sure as we are 
standing herea 

Billyo 
Look out, I've got a pull, and men with that, don't- suffer 
much when they're tried for murder in this old town, 

Aleck,; 
But you'll be tried up state William Baker, where your pull 
ain't vrorth a damn, come alongo 

Billyo- 
Say don't be in a hurry old man, 

Aleck, 
But I am in a hurry, a big huriy too^ 

Billy 
I v/as hired to do that job on your brothers 



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stands listPnTntt I -Buzzard tooe Buzzard re-enters 

we've ffot thino^^ .n^ ^"^^"^ States Evidence but I think 

(BuILfd T^ioi^^ ^ "^Pp^ °^* ^° ^^"^ yo^ ^th to the chair 

rop? tSh? at fh.t ' 1"°^"^ °^"^ shoulders a^d Lrm, pulls 

hi^ AifSv'.^ ^^ moment Billy grabs Aleck by leg up-ending 
him Ale(5k struggles but is unable to get a footing Buzzard 
winds rope around and around Alecks body, ties it behind 
Aleck repeatedly yells "Let ^_ of my leg-' Billy urges Su^zard 

m. , . ■ Billy 

Tie him tight Ebenezar, 

Buz zard 
Jow Mr. Smart Aleck, never count yoi.Tr chickens before 
they are hatched^ 

Billyo 
Quick, search him for the key of these things, 

Aleck 
Search and be durned to ye, I ain't got it, 

™a, , ■ Billy, 

Wio haSo 

Aleckc 
The Captain at the police station. You'll have to go there 
to get them off, 

Billy • 
There's a file in the bag there.. Get that, and file them 
off ,. 

Buzzard 
(Produces knife) i,et me cut his throat firsts 

Billyc 
No cut these hand-cuffs off firsb, I can't be any good v/ith 
these things on, 

Aleck 
You couldn't be any good with them on or off^--. 

Billy. ^O/. 

(As Buzzard returns with file from tool bag) -Jjfurix -up, it 
can't take over five minutes ^ '^/^'Oi 

Buzzard ^^^ ^^ 

(trying file on them) ?ive mi.nute3j they're as hard 'afe-'fii^nt, 
if I was a betting man, I,d bet I can't get them off in five 
hours, 

Aleck 
I'll bet five dollars, you don't get them off in five days. • 
Van Jiggins made them, and you bet they're put on to stay on. 

Billy 
Push him into that room. He gets on my nerves. 

Buzzard 
Let me stick him just once, I want to see him squimio 

Billy 
H"0j I want that pleasure myself, just before we leave, 
(Buzzard pushes Aleck into room L 2 E returns to file 
business) 

Billyc 
Hurry, up. Buzzard, Say did you get Casey away from the 

Buzzard 
(Filing) Yes, he fell for the fake telephone message like 
an angel. 



Silly. 



We must craGk fha+ ^ Silly. 

-11 right an ^m^ll\ToL\T''^'V''' «^'^ S°* ^ cold, 

x.e jcnous the whole business- ' 

He can't use mmy^ ^^ u- ^^^ard 

(Re-enter Aleck and Bendy''"?^''^: '^"^"^ ^^'^ ^^ ^^^ Srave. 

Btage at back, Exuent doj^ S f l^t r^ cautiously acrfss 

But what he knnTra Silly, 

^"o^'s, someone else luxy know. 

It's no use Billy I can-?"!^"''"^ 

and besides there s a tnv-. "" scratch these things, 

out and it winU: t1'be"\r?ke'n"\th"''b ^°' *"° ^°"^ 

a blacksmith's shop dovm the s ? reSt n . f ^^^^ '' * there's 

3-u carry your coat on .oj a^^a^l^J-^: SlTllP yo. 

Buzzard, ^ give me your knift 

What for. 'Buzzard 

Before I go, i am going to^^'^^ish .^.at Rube detective' 

^ i"-t^ ^s^Sir^^iS^^^^^ ---^-s it 

(Looks) He's gcne^ , ^ ly 

•nrru X Buzzard 

What, gone where? (Knock on door at back.) 

Who^s there'. ' -^^^"^ 

Ale ck 
Aleck Smart- Deputy Sheriff frnm i,-n c + o+ / ^ 
Bendy) I'll take you Broji pfSy aLo 5.*^* t"^ '''^ ^^^^ ' 

YOU are.both charged lit^m^'dj? and'y^r^uigr^Tth^'""^- 
kidnapping this child knor/n as Bendy. ^"^^^^^^ 

V ^ ' Buzzard "^^^y^^T . 

You have no proofs^ '^•^w' /©/-. 

Kizzie ^^^:.J^ 

(Enters with policeman) I will give all the evidence 
nexessary. I have the baby's clothpc; rr^vVoi '^r^^^V^e 
myhusbard's death bed confession tJii? the Tiri v^ "^"^"' 
Bendy^ her real .^e is Mary l.^o?^n''tid'5 ofeff^oTher' 
mother by you, Here w. Smart are the mortKa^e and rpVlo 
left with me and stained ^vith your broth er^J^ blood '^®^®^^®' 

Aleck ' 

My brother, and Bendy - think- 'you are my brothers' sfpn 
child. lam your step Uncle. i^ioT^ners step 

Bjndy 
Step Uncle, that ain't so muche 

we may make the relationship closer, somj day. Ah there 'c, « 
despairing woman up State- tonight and I will seem to her- 
like a messenger of light. 



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